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Where is the IET going?

RayC
The IET on Twitter is mostly about women in engineering and it appears we also have or have had an Executive member who represents the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK). Since when did we get away and direct our selves at subsections of the organization? There is no minorities that I am aware of in the IET at least not because of bias in any way shape of form. The same goes for women in engineering, no one is biased against them. Low numbers are because they dont want to be in engineering..

Where is the IET heading? It does not seem to be going in a place most of the member wold probably want or is it?
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    Mark Tickner:

    I agree with the statement about the Young Women Engineer or the Year.  I also agree that there ought to be either additional competitions for other genders or you should have a Young Engineer of the Year alone.  I'm fairly certain that the young females are more then capable of competing with the young males (let alone any other gender designation) on an equal basis.


    I'd disagree about any complaint regarding STEM promotion to children.  The more the better as far as I'm concerned!  We ought to be thinking to our futures not stuck in the past.


     




    Thank you for your reply and support on having equality.


    I should clarify my point about STEM teaching.   I think this is clearly the job of schools to prepare children correctly and a major failing of the curriculum.   The IET turning up for an afternoon once at a random school isn't going to make any significant impact.   If the IET is to have a role in this then it has to be in ensuring that the right STEM classes are taught within schools.   That the curriculum is designed to prepare school children for an engineering or science future.   Firstly to encourage them to make the selections to the right subjects, then through to getting the right grades for university.


    Generally, however, we have a bigger problem in that children seem to increasingly becoming consumers rather than creators.   Games machines don't allow for users to program them!   We're not getting the next generator sitting down in front of a computer and writing software.   Nor with the demise of the likes of Maplin are they building electronic kits.   That is a stage we're missing from their education - problem solving.


    It's something that I think the Raspberry Pi has done a lot more to aid than the IET.   If anything the IET should be ensuring that government supplies every school child with one and a kit of electronics to play with!

     

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    Mark Tickner:

    I agree with the statement about the Young Women Engineer or the Year.  I also agree that there ought to be either additional competitions for other genders or you should have a Young Engineer of the Year alone.  I'm fairly certain that the young females are more then capable of competing with the young males (let alone any other gender designation) on an equal basis.


    I'd disagree about any complaint regarding STEM promotion to children.  The more the better as far as I'm concerned!  We ought to be thinking to our futures not stuck in the past.


     




    Thank you for your reply and support on having equality.


    I should clarify my point about STEM teaching.   I think this is clearly the job of schools to prepare children correctly and a major failing of the curriculum.   The IET turning up for an afternoon once at a random school isn't going to make any significant impact.   If the IET is to have a role in this then it has to be in ensuring that the right STEM classes are taught within schools.   That the curriculum is designed to prepare school children for an engineering or science future.   Firstly to encourage them to make the selections to the right subjects, then through to getting the right grades for university.


    Generally, however, we have a bigger problem in that children seem to increasingly becoming consumers rather than creators.   Games machines don't allow for users to program them!   We're not getting the next generator sitting down in front of a computer and writing software.   Nor with the demise of the likes of Maplin are they building electronic kits.   That is a stage we're missing from their education - problem solving.


    It's something that I think the Raspberry Pi has done a lot more to aid than the IET.   If anything the IET should be ensuring that government supplies every school child with one and a kit of electronics to play with!

     

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